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Irreducible

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

adj. Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount: irreducible burdens.

adj. Not able to be reduced or lessened.

adj. Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.

adj. Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x^2 + 1).

adj. Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.

adj. Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.

adj. impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation

n. Such a polynomial

adj. Incapable of being reduced, or brought into a different state; incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition.

adj. Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression.

Incapable of being reduced to a lower amount or degree; not to be diminished or degraded.

Incapable of being brought into a different state, condition, or form.

Incapable of being reduced to a desired form or condition by manipulation: as, an irreducible hernia or fracture.

adj. incapable of being made smaller or simpler

"Behe claims that evolutionary processes cannot generate structures that exhibit what he calls irreducible complexity."

reducible

irreducible circuit irreducible case

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Words with the same meaning

insoluble

Words that are found in similar contexts

unanalysable monic trigonometric indivisible unchangeable